Typhoons, fiestas or erupting volcanoes were not events speech pathologist Larissa Ashton had to deal with working across regional South Australia, but volunteering in the Philippines was a different story....

Debbie Brooker is a volunteer for the Mackay Autism Support Group, and for the past 18 years she has been dedicating her time to help the need of others. In the early days she recalls getting late night phone calls from families asking for her advice - but if it meant turning someone's day around, ...

One of the testiest issues in the debate about freedom of speech is hate speech. Should even speech that is hateful be free? Should freedom of speech include the right to be racist, the right to be sexist, the right to say derogatory thinks about individuals and groups? For a while, Tony Abbotts ...